ESSENTIAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE YOU’LL NEED

• CIMA, ACA or ACCA qualified or international equivalent with Finance related degree or equivalent experience
• Significant post-qualified experience in a Finance environment is essential to performing in this role, including business partnering senior stakeholders
• Significant experience in change delivery
• Experience influencing and challenging at Board level

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Head of Finance, Waitrose to join our Senior Finance Leadership team. Utilising your strong business partnering and influencing skills, you’ll not only challenge effectively and provide strategic insight to optimise long-term performance for our Partners, business, and customers, but also cultivate a high-performing finance team. This is your chance to shape financial decisions, input on investment strategies, and ensure the sustainable profitability essential to our unique Partnership model.

• Salary - £130,500 - £195,700.
• Contract type - This position is a permanent contract.
• Working pattern/flexible working - The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you’ll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. This role will require the successful candidate to be at our Bracknell Head Office 3 days a week.
• Location - This role can be based at either our Pimlico or Bracknell Head Office, with regular travel to the alternate location

ABOUT THE ROLE

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Head of Finance, Waitrose to join our Senior Finance Leadership team. Utilising your strong business partnering and influencing skills, you’ll not only challenge effectively and provide strategic insight to optimise long-term performance for our Partners, business, and customers, but also cultivate a high-performing finance team. This is your chance to shape financial decisions, input on investment strategies, and ensure the sustainable profitability essential to our unique Partnership model.

• Salary - £130,500 - £195,700.
• Contract type - This position is a permanent contract.
• Working pattern/flexible working - The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you’ll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. This role will require the successful candidate to be at our Bracknell Head Office 3 days a week.
• Location - This role can be based at either our Pimlico or Bracknell Head Office, with regular travel to the alternate location.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive the delivery of the Partnership Plan financials within your area of accountability, improving business performance and decision making, delivering relevant reporting, planning and forecasting activity across BAU and portfolio activity, and supporting timely and full delivery of cost savings.
• Enable leaders to make decisions through concise, timely and actionable insight combining complex analytics alongside commercial and business understanding, optimising the performance Partnership’s propositions, and shaping ongoing plans.
• Influence and enable the delivery of long term commercial value through honest, data driven, high support/high challenge conversations. Provide an independent voice, willing to challenge the status quo, surfacing trade offs and supporting resolution to enable better decisions
• Work across boundaries, surfacing tensions, facilitating challenging discussions, and influencing others to make difficult trade offs which benefit our business as a whole
• Hold the leadership team to account to deliver on their financial targets. Role model a culture of value generation, cost control and financial responsibility.
• Ensure appropriate consideration of risk, and adherence to relevant compliance controls
• Lead a team of Finance professionals, creating the conditions for all Partners to thrive, make their best contribution and achieve their potential.
• Optimise the balance of resources in Finance in pursuit of long term Partnership success and insightful reporting
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, identifying opportunities for ongoing optimisation, actively engaging and embedding change consistently and effectively.